The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-02-19
THE NEWS AFTERMATH.


forty-tve days.
1t is reported from Maine that the
English sparrows in that State have
turned white this winter.
There is a $50 a year postofice vacant
in Arkansas, for which there are thirty
seven applicants.
SANKEY'S Individual outfit as COM
mander of the expedition to rescue
Emin Bey will cost $l00, 000.
The cigars smoked in this country an
nually, If put end to end, would reach
around the earth nine times.
The Reading Railroad Company
claims to hare lost $40, 600 900 because of
the present strike of coal handlers and
miners.
Thomas NJ. Davis, of Milford, DEL,
claims to have in use the oldest sleigh
III the country. His great-grandfather
made it in l77V.
A 7year-old thoroughbred cow be-
longing to Elias Hines, of Troy. Mo-.
give birth the other day to FIVE fine
calves, and tnen died.
Within less than a week. recently.
there died in Durham, Me, Hansel Will
b, r, aged SO; Sally Miller, aged 80; and
Jonathan Johnson, ageo 1O2.
Barnstead, N. H., claims to have the
Oldest brass band i'll the United States.
1t VIII celebrate tina tiftieth anniversary
OF its organization February %.
Newspaper editors in Japan have to
send prOnfsheets of all matter to the
Mikado', NJ mister of Safe, who eras S
whatever lie regards as Objectionable.
Farmers of Pleasant Valley and RvCe
Park, near Poughkeepsie, N. Y, are or
ganizing parties oexterminate focks of
wild dogs which are preying on their
stock.
James NJ Logarden, of Kansas City
No , Is 80 years old. On his golden we'd
ding day ne brought suit for divorce
againsJ MS wife, which was granted.
She is IS years cid.
A girl was recently arrested in New
YORK f0l stealing watch and some
Je"e,ry from d friend. On trial it was
proved she mad pawned them to raise
money to bury her mother.
Five hundred Chinese ouails have
| been imported into California for prop
aga;iOn purposes. They are smaller
than the California quail, and even
smaller than the general quail of the
country. They are swift of wing and
said to afford great sport, requiring
much skill o shoot them
luke Dad, of Modoc County, Cal, is
! said to be 100 years old. In crossing the
plains in 40 all his family were massa-
| cred by Indians, he alone escaping. For
long years he was a redOubtable Indian
slayer, and to-day handles his rifle well
ana rides as well as any man Young
| enough to be his great-grandson.
A Valdosta, Ga, farmer residing
| along the road observed a large bald
eagle deVouring goose by the roadside.
Riding up near the eagle at his repasC
he showed no disposition to quit his
meal. D!smounting the farmer appro-
ached the bird, which instead of taking
to flight showed fight. The farmer cap
tured the eagle after quite conflict
and he measured seven feet from tip to
tip of his wings.
The respite granted Harding, the stage
robber and murderer at Beaverhead, NJ.
T., postponed the test OF a new han iDg
machine. The new machine is a long
beam set on fulcrum or pivot. A shorl
rOpo around the victim $ neck is at
tached to one end At the proper sig
nal weight is attached To the other
end, and it Is claimed the victims neck
will be broken before his feet leaves the
ground.
Mrs. Lima Swaffield, OF Beverly, Mass.
who has recently been taken to Floriua
by her husband, who hopes that the
change OF sc, ne and climate will restore
her to sanity is the victim of practical
joke. A few weeks ago her husband
joined a. hunting party. On the way
home one of the party hurried in ad-
vance and told Mrs. SWatfield that her
husband had been shot and killed. She
tainted, remained unconscious for sew
eral hours, and when she regained con-
sclousness was insane.
In 1868 William Cooper, of Yell
County, Arkansas, enlisted in the Con-
f9derate army, and shortly after, being
captured, was taken to Camp Douglass.
Ill. He escaped and went back to Yell
County, but found his wife had disap
peared. Since then he has been
tramp and the other day braced up be-
fore a kitchen door in Shiloh, Ark, to
beg a meal. He recognized il the
woman who came to the door his long
lost wife. She had buried two husbands
since William left her and separated
from a third She and William reunited
their fortunes.